Sheesh. Climate change hits New England. 6 below zero F around here, frozen pipes. Amazing what global warming can do to us. A few years ago, Mrs. BD and I skiied at 10 below. That was zippy, and we had the whole place to ourselves, almost. Wonderful. I remember putting anti-freeze in the toilets.
Agree or disagree with his opinions, the late Justice Scalia was a brilliant legal mind full of passion and wit
Geography and Economic Growth
Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender
Blame an Ivory Ban for China’s Vanishing Giant Clams
Chef removes foie gras from Valentine's Day menu after getting death threats from vegans
NYPD used stingrays over 1,000 times without warrants since 2008
"The Politics of life are easy. It's the Poetics that are tough."
The Poetics of life are much more persistent in their knocking at the door of your inner self than the Politics. Politics have their seasons, but the Poetics are our constant companions, waking and sleeping, thinking and dreaming. In a very real sense, since they run deeper than the Politics, the Poetics are the Politics' power source. But what are the Poetics about? Simply put, they are "like all Greek songs, about love and death."
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I've stood in a room high above Central Park West where the only sound was a death rattle in an old man's throat, and told the doctor on the telephone that there was really no reason to send the emergency resuscitation crew for the twelfth time in half as many months. I sat quietly holding the old man's hand for around thirty minutes until his breathing stopped. Then I left that room, told my in-laws he was dead, and watched them mask their expressions of relief.
THE NORMALIZATION OF BAD IDEAS:
While American education goes further down the tubes, lame-brained notions are raised to levels of respectability in academe that should shock any halfway reasonable person. What has happened is the normalization of bad ideas, thanks mostly to identity politics. We constantly hear that we live in a hopelessly racist and sexist society, but the truth is that we live in such a liberal atmosphere that identity-based complaints are always taken seriously. And rarely does a student shouting obscenities at a professor or administrator get told to just “shut up and study.”
The mess that is Fannie and Freddie
The imperial federal agencies
Macho Man vs. the Pussy
Steyn having fun: Notes After New Hampshire
Trump was out of control in South Carolina debate
Something wrong with him? Acting like a complete a-hole
ISIS extremists stone four women to death on charges of ‘committing adultery’
Raped them, then accused them of adultery for it. Multicultural morals.
Geography and Economic Growth
